Word: ning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After adjourning for one day to mourn Belgium's Delacroix, the bankers got back to their ballroom, soon rounded out a major portion of their labors by announcing that they had reached agreement in principle on the following attributes of the Bank for International Settlements (now begin ning to be called the "Young Bank"). Capital to be $100,000,000 as envisioned in the Young Plan. Board of Governors to comprise: first, six Governors ("Bix Six") representing the central banks of Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan; second, two U. S. Governors ("Big Two") elected...
...hand in Gold Dust Corp. of which he is now chairman. He was invited to reorganize American Cotton Oil Co. and did so with such effect that in about five years the value of the company's stock was multi plied 15 times. That was only the begin ning of a career of reorganizations and purchases. Today George K. Morrow. 55, keen-eyed, grey, sturdy, has a home on Long Island, golfs week-endly at the Pomonok Country Club (Flushing), owns the Mono, yacht of the late Marcus Loew...
...William Randolph Hearst, whose correspondents constantly supply him with expensive but startling scoops,* whose vital pungency has won him more millions of daily readers than any other individual publisher can hoast. The other was Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the white-bearded little "man from Maine" whose Saturday Eve- ning Post and Ladies' Home Journal are as essentially sound and quiet as the Maine homes into one of which Publisher Curtis was born. Last week had Publisher Hearst seen Publisher Curtis he might well have been patronizing. The Hearst editor had won the most exciting journalist race of the year, although...
Roland Young was selected with un canny precision for this curiously agree able king. He plays with such gentle cun ning that the evening swishes suavely past like a cat in silk pajamas. There are several shrewd helpers and an excellent back stage device to counterfeit the rattles of artillery deploying before the palace in the embattled second act. Mr. Sherwood has contributed much high nonsense, nota bly a bitter game of checkers between the King and a gravely obese footman...
...Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, conductor, will give 102 concerts, 78 of them in Philadelphia. There will be the regular series of 29 Friday afternoon and Saturday evening concerts, begin- ning Oct. 8 and ending April 30, and 10 Monday evening concerts and a double series of young people's concerts Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Out of town appearances will be in New York (10), Baltimore (5), Washington (3), Indianapolis, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland. Among the soloists will be Moriz Rosenthai, Sergei Rachmaninov, Clara Haskil, Walter Gieseking, Efrem Zimbalist, Ruth Breton, Maurice Marechal, Lauritz Melchior...